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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Concrete, Finland, Green architecture, Marco Casagrande, Refurbishment / Extension, Research, Taiwan
Finnish architect Marco Casagrande has successfully converted an abandoned apartment block into the Ruin Academy in Taipei, Taiwan. The Ruin Academy is operated in co-operation between Casagrande Laboratory / Finland and JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture / Taiwan. It moves in-between architecture, sociology, environmental sciences (including urban design) and environmental art. The house used [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Community Center, Competition, Italy, Landscape architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Research
For the competition held by Ance on the redevelopment of abandoned industrial areas, the spatial analysis project started. The lot is located in the former industrial area of Cava de’ Tirreni, north of it, the area that was occupied by Co.Fi.MA, abandoned canning industry. Gone are the tobacco fields of landscape features which are linked [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Canada, Community Center, ESD design, Exhibition, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Refurbishment / Extension, Research
Paul Raff Studio has designed the Biosphere Sustainability Centre in the Thousand Island Region in Ontario, Canada, it is the multi-use cultural facility which will be a powerful catalyst to environmental, social and economic sustainable development. MISSION To partner and leverage natural and human capital to improve environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes by demonstrating [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Glass, Museum, Research, UK
The new phase 2 of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum by C. F. Møller Architects had the grand opening on 14 September 2009 and unveiled to the public on 15 September. The new Darwin Centre features a huge eight-storey concrete cocoon surrounded by a glass atrium, this iconic form expresses the enormous [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China architecture, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Henn Architekten, Research
Munich-based Henn Architekten has won the competition proposal for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center on the rural outskirts of Beijing. The design concept was developed from a traditional Chinese courtyard architecture and translated into highly technologically developed, forward-looking design. The complex for China’s biggest insurance company consists of a main building, a [...]
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